Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1916, Page 12

1’ e e ————— THE O DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROBEWATER. VIOTOR ROSEWA EDITOR, The Bes Pu BUILD! FARN, tot TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 8 e Tath ] Shbuout Suadiy::: 2 Bunday. 0 it irculation !-l'll.lli-’ : REMITTAN B . 4, R S0 e, 8 - al chee m“‘. i ord ent of Omaha and eastern ex- OFFI0ES. uth et e e CORRESPONDENCE. unl; o I 7] MAY CIRCULATION, 57,852 Daily—Sunday 52,748 . Dwight ' Willlams, elreulstion mansger of The Bee Publishing compsay, being duly says that the nu.‘.mhm-nhd , 1018, was 51,88 Wuin!ut Sunday, Babeerided In my R to before ¢ and sworn me M“udlmlw i ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. R 4 and edle meant. " “Safety first” has had one mora eloquent ex- hibition, —— * Some brande of justice call for constant brac- |ing to straighten the crooks. m———— ‘. Owing to the unavoidable absence of King " Corn, June crap averages hesitate to put on airs. . Don’t let roses or auything else distract your mind from the ever-preaent duty of swatting the + It looks like the engineer of the Russian steam roller fd got hold of the forward motion lever - S—— The bull moose terms for compromise are Quite like the peace terms the European warrlors Make your plans so hat you can be in the s next Wednesday. You owe at least half a s time to the flag. In justice to Chicago, it should be said that its reputation as the Windy City does not depend ————— | Shoe leather is more valusble than rubber as asset. Besides it provides sure footing is2 ¢ E5 fiks i ] ! i it E*ié i 28538 £ g § $ £ sions required to handle the in- The tide is running ‘ right d&, t is difficult to believe that any man could 80 cowardly and 90 cruel as to commit an such as is ascribed to the motorist who rately crushed a dog between his car and cutb, More difficult is to find in the English g ‘words ‘to describe him. Whatever his n in life, he is beyond expression. ——— ~ Thirty Years Ago - This Day in Omaha Complied From Beo Files. %&n late of the firm of Van Bm cil Bluffs, has purch: the estate business of B. R. nd the business will hereafter be conducted e firm name of Ball & Van Brunt, with at'115 South Fifteenth street. Robert Purvis have gone to fis to be t at. the m e of has to Miss Maude 8 3 . Smith and family have moved A ! _home, South ulwol‘s'elhm 'l Alfred Don- ho sail on the 25th What the Republican Party Stands For. Two great questions are before the American people, involving policies of government, based on fundamental principles of human liberty. Great- est of these is the protection of the citizen in all of his rights, at home or abroad, at all times and under all circumstances. Through such protece tion alone is freedom secured and liberty sus- tained. To secure this protection requires the co-opération of all the citizens, to the end that it be made plain to all the world that Americans will abate nothing to make certain that they be not deprived of their rights as established by law, by treaty agréemants and by the rules of in- ternational conduct. These conditions are ele- mental factorf in the national life of all peoples, and the observation of them is obligatory on every self-réspecting government. The first plank in the republican platform deals with this most important of all the issues, present now as always as the chief care of responsible government. In terms simple and unmistakable, the representatives of the party pledge to the people the maintenance of security for the American citizen in his person and property, wherever he may be. No clearer declarstion on this vital point has ever come down from a rep- resentative gathering, and the record of the re- publican’ party throughout its history is ample guaranty of its sincerity. 1L 3 Second .only to the protection and preserva- tion of the liberties and rights of the citizen is the protection and. preservation of the industry and commerce of the country. The American home . rests finally on the employment of the American citizen; it has been developed under the polity of the republican party, which is more lh;n a theory or mere experiment, to a point where the American standard of living is far .above that reached by any other nation in all the world’s history, and which must not only be maintained but improved, if the nation is to raake progress at all. Under and by reason of the re- publican plan of protecting home industries through the means of s properly adjusted tariff law, our manufactures have been devioped, and with them the commerce of the people. That this plan is the correct one has been well proven by the disaster 'that has inevitably followed any effort to experiment under the democratic theory of free trade, Prosperity is only possible when the business of the country is made secure by such provisions of law as will not alone safeguard it from the ravages of foreign competition in the home market, but also will give such assurance of permanency as will encourge the proper and substantial development of legitimate enterprise. Without equivocation or evasion the republicans are pledged to the protective tariff plan, the law to be framed by a nonpartisan commission, and subject to such modification from time to time as experience shall determine to be wise and prudent. IIL P Inseparably connected with these paramount issues are the questions of national defense, of our relations with other nations, and the further- ance of all the interests of the people of our own country, to the end that they fnay not only pros- per and thrive in a material sénse, but that they may enjoy to the fullest all that is meant by the rights of “life, liberty and the pursuitof happi- ness.” .4 National defense can be made capable and effective only by the adoption and development of plans that will competently provide for land and sea forces of sufficient strength to meet any emergency that may confront the nation. This does not contemplate anything of so-called “mili- tarism,” nor the. setting up of & military eult in the midst of a republic that is devoted to peace in, its best sense. Peace with honor is the aim of our people, and the purpose of the tepiblican party. To have this peace it is necessary that all citizens contribute in service, which merely is an acceptance of the responsibility as well as the privileges of citizenship. The republican party pledges: itself, now as in the past, adequately to provide for the defense of the country and its people at all times and under all conditions. The democratic proposal that the Monroe doc- trine be modified or abandoned is squarely met by a declaration in favor of its continuance in full force. Likewise, the republican party stands devoted to carrying out in full our obligations to the Filipinos, which the democrats shamelessly undertook to abandon, On all points of our relations with foreign countries the platform reads clear and rings true. To readjust treaties 80 as to make certain of the recognition of the right of expatriation to all who seek citizenship by adoption, to assist in restoring order and mpo&olble government in Mexico, and to place the United States fairly in its proper podition before the world all are solemnly pledged by a party that has always redeemed its platform promises in action and not in words|or pretense. Iv. Dealing with matters that are purely domestic, the platform is equally explicit and implicit. It gives to labor definite pledges, it makes a promise to business that means something, and to the electorate it endorses the principle of universal suffrage regardless of sex. Economy in national adminstration 'is a tenet of republicanism, as shown by the presence of & surplua of $85,000,000 in the national treasu’y when the government was turned over to the Wilson adminiatration, a surplue that was quickly changed into a deficit of more than $65,000,000 by the democrats. Corl- servation, rural credits, the extension and im- provement of the postal service, and other phases of governmental activities are dealt with specifi- cally, and no vague or shifty generalization quali- fies any of the pledges made. : . The repablican platform is comprehencive and succinct, and is the promise to the country of a party that recognizes its pledges as obligations to be redeemed, binding after as well as before election. — Youth and middle age oft make merry with the set ways and rutted views of the elder states- men, Backnumbers and hasbeens they are, through no fault of theirs. Yet few among the jushers of the elders could command a fraction of the attention shown by the republican convention to Chauncey Depew and Joseph Gurney Cannon. Though both are past four-score, their oratory showed much of the old-time fire and force which youthful spellbinders well eavy. i S———— The federal supreme court points out several large holes in the Harrison drug act through of forbidden drugs escape pun- ishment, Mere possession is not illegal in. the must be given that per- dealing in them. ?h -not-over fast for the Gretna Green of Compulsory Military Training 'ashington Corr. Boston Transeript. ITH the passage of the army reorganization bill and with the assured if not the im- mediate passage of the navy bill, the atteation of rreparedness advocates in the country is gradual- ly turning towards the Chamberlain bill for com- ulgory millitary training. This bill is known as Senate 1695 and is now before the Senate Military Affairs committee. Only last week the news got out that the bill was neither dead nor buried, that hearings might very probably be held upon it, and that it might even be reported to the senate, Chairman Chamberlain is a profound believer in the necessity, if not in the expediency of this piece of legislation, and it is understood that he is bending every effort to secure action on it be- fore long. The secretary of war, Mr. Baker, has already announced himself as in favor of this measure. The president recently, attempting no doubt to take the wind out of the sails of Roosevelt's Kansas City speeches, went on record as ssying, “Unjversal voluntary training? with all my heart| If you wish it, but' America does not wish any- THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, thing but compulsion of the spirit of America”: This is a statement which, while it will {enenlly be taken to mean that the president is: out of sympathy with the Chamberlain bill, is neverthe- less capable of another interpretation if desired. At any rate, the rruidmt has reversed himself 10 many times before that another reversal now would add little to his burdens. The: Chamberlain bill, in brief, provides for the training in the use of arms of all able-bodied male citizens between the ages of twelve and twenty-three. The ‘measure exempts certain classes, including the morally unfit and members of religious sects or organizations whose convic- tions are against war or participation therein. Boys from the l? of twelve to fourteen are to be enrolled as membern of the Citizen Cadet Corps, and are to be given ninety hours of calisthenic without arms, each ‘ur. From fourteen to six- teen the boys are to have ninety hours of military mimns._meludl&[ g:ueq practice with the rifle. After eighteen the boys are to be enrolled in the citizen army, or navy, for the bill covers both branches of the defense service, up to the age of twenty-three, when they pass automatically into the Citizen Army Reserve, which can be mobilized at the call of the president. Fines and confine- ment under the authority of the juvenile courts are placed for evasion of service, Since the present sesslon of congress began, there has unquestionably been a steady drift to- ward endorsenfents of legislation of this kind. In spite of the protests of the military experts, the belief ‘has been prevalent in congress that the volunteer system that served the country so well in ‘the past should be continued in the future. The national guardsmen in their successful argu- ment beéfore committees of congress this winter pleaded for the volunteer system and promised in effect that if the militia should be federalized according to their program, the country would have an adequate citizen “m!' But these bright prophecies have been dimmed by unpleasant hap- nings. The number of volunteers for service in exico was pitifully small. Over a hundred Texas militiamen refused to obey their command- ing offficer, and are now. being tried by court- martial. Ptflllfil because the national guard has secured that which it sought, perhaps for some other reason, little is now heard in Washington of the beauties of voluntary service. A principal argument against compulsory serv- fee, which is heard in the halls of congress and in places where officials discuss and talk policies, is that it is not politically expedient, that, in other words, the time is not yet ripe. Your correspond- ent has heard this argument from the lips of a distinguished officer of the organized militia, and this officer declared that he himself favored com- pulsory service, but th‘:. llhf‘e compu]lo;y oelrvbice Was Tmany. years a e félt conatrained to labor for the next hest thing—the deferalired. cajicl In these days, however, progress is made rapidly, and the fixed convictions of yesterday are often altered before the end of next week. So it is, or rather so it may be, with the ideasof compulsory “military service, —_— . The American Union Against Militarism, which is the same thing as the anti-preparedness com- mittee, apparently sees the handwriting on the wall, - In"a bulletin, it says of the Chamberlain bill: “Politically the bill stands no show whatever. Chairman. Hay of the house military affairs committee has declared that it can never pass the house, and he knows. It-is doubtful whether it can pass the senate, But as propaganda it is very dangerous. It was allowed to lie in the military affairs committee, where it furnished some of the Washington correspondents with texts for special articles on compulsory military training. But the other day President Wilson remarked to the delegation from the American Union Against Militarism which visited him, that since it was not contrary to American traditions 1\"!« the reverse—for the citizens thereon, it followed naturally that it was not contrary to our tradition that they should be trained in the use of |- those arms. He So wit ored the compulsory feature, gon see there i3 a-certain tide to be reckoned This bulletin is useful insofar as it indicates ‘hn the' most highly organized anti-military group in the country is n]rnq{ making its plans to combat the Chamberlain bill. Included in the bulletin is an npgnl to citizens to write to their congressmen and urge them to vote and work against this measure. Friends of this measure will doubtless be interested to know that opposi- tion to it has already been launched. What the events of the next two weeks will be and what their effect will be upon pnr&{ politics, in the senate and elsewhere, it fio too early to pre- dict. But it is not an unremote possibility that the nomination by the republicans of a man strongly committed to the idea of compulsory military service, or the adoption by the Chicago convendm! a platform demanding compulsory service, be answered by Mr. Chamberlain and his democratic colleagues in the senate by favorable report on the Chamberlain bill, and perhaps a vote. s People and Events The spirit of preparedness grips Boston. A war veteran there, aged 73, decorated his pros- pective grave on Memorial day, so that he might enjoy the flowers while living. The auto fever is nearing an epidemic in Mag- sachusetts. More motor vehicles have been I‘- censed in five months of &Muen than in all of 1915, Registrations number 94,78%, which netted the state $1,000,000 in fees. Mrs. Anna Seeley Caldwell, a Brooklyn cen- tenarian, recently deceased, was able to read the Bible to the last. She had been blind and deaf for many years, but recovered sight and hearing eat age, a fact which eye and ear specialists coul explain, not The d record for divoree in Clayton, Mo., from the filing to the finish, with all legal for- -dmumuhwmdngstl‘;dl: ¥ d for parti ial Fand thres timer dhvrecss oY The wnhhinf statement is made by Dr. Martha *wu,m essor of physiologicalchemis- try at the ‘s Medical College of Pennsyl- ia, that 70 '3:1 cent of Philadelphia’s school itle are undi A series of tests with 127 | students at the Philadel ormal | for girls are the basis of the statement, A marked rence was found in the vitality of a day and tl or skipped them for but R I e i 1916. TheDees . Sage Not Rockefeller. New York, June 7.—To the Editor of The Bee: A news item in your lssue of May 20 refers to certain comments by Dr. Hastings W. Hart on children’s institutions in your city, and to Dr. Hart as a representative of the Rockefeller Foundation. It may ‘be too ote to make {t worth while to correct this statement, but in justice tothe Russell Sage Foundation, with which Dr. Hart is eon- nected, it would be desirable to have it un- derstood that his excellent serviced have been rendered under the auspices of the Sage Foundation and not the Rockefeller Foundation. Very truly yours, JEROME D. GREENE. Street Signs Needed. Omahs, June 8.—To the Editor of The Bee: I get back to Omaha every few years and always note with interest the progress being made by the Gate City. Some of the residence sections of Omaha will compare favorably with many of the older and larger eltles of the cduntry. Commercially the city is advancing by leaps and beunds. It just occurs to me that Omahs would impress the stranger more if the names of streets were placed st convenient places as guides for those seeking addresses with which they sre not familiar. I have just made & tour of twenty. ¢ities of the middle west, and I regret to say, that Omaha is backward in this nature. 1 venture to state that even many residents of the city have difficulty ot times locating streets of their own eity. Omaha should attend to this municipal de- tall. It does not appear on the # be very important, but these small help to make the desirable city. I trus the next time I return to the eity I will have to ask people on the f::z“ location of sny particuler o boost for Omaha and any suggestion make for ite bettérment should be sccepted in the spirit in which it is given. FRIEND OF OMAHA. - New Channels of Mortality. Omahs, June 9.~To the Editor of The Bee: Is the human rece growing constitu- tionally weaker? This s by no mesns & new guestion. But to answer it by a mere “yes” or “no,” or to attempt to solve it by philosophical or metaphysical speculstion is equally vain. Nature has little respect for mere argu- mentation, but while philosaphers speculste and argue on this point nature is quietly di- recting the flow of mertality in its own stern way. ‘We have cut down the death rate of eer- tain virulent bscterfal diseases. We have thus reduced the mortality tremendously throughout the civilised areas. We have doubled the populstion of the world in a century by prevention and cure of moted plagues. We have praised ourselves for the eplendid work. But have we not been aslesp to & new " course of nature already beginning to draw off, through new channels of miortality, the Increased flood of ‘populstion our sclentfie methods have saved? - This has no reference to the mortality in the Buropesn war. It has reference to the tendency of ma- ture to earry off by constitutional diseases those formerly taken by bacterial or so- called pestilential diseases. The death rate in the United States from known epidemie causes in 1909 was only 59.1 per cent as high as in 1900. This is & great step for nine years of work. During that same period, however, while science and sanitation humbled epidemics, death from disesses of the eirculatory sys- tem rose over 20 per cent, These are cone stitutional diseases that know no cure. During the same period death from child- birth increased 15 per cent. This is evi- dence of constitutional weakness of the women. Death from diseases of the locomotor sys- tem increased nearly 82 per cent. Deaths from malformations rose over 82 per cent. What is. this but econstitutional deterioration Bpeaking still more specifically, the desth rate from heart disease in the United Biates in these nine years rose nearly 17 per cent. This s an incurable constitutional disesse. In the same period it rose over 17 per ¢cent in cancer. It rose over 6 per cent in apoplexy, before which pliysiclans are ever helpless. Mortality bounded 48% per cent in sui- cldes. It reached an inerease of 88% per cent in broncho-pneumonia. In diseases of the arteries the mortality figures made the astonishing incresse of 228 per ¢ent in these mnine years aboye men- tioned. The sedentary 'life of the cities also swells death rates from diseases of the di- gestive and respiratory systems, and other organs most affected by lack of exercise and attending evils of ‘congested life.. The United States mortality statistics of 1902 re. veal the following contrast betwean rural and city desth rites in these respects: Death rate per 100,000 population in the United States in 10090— 4 Rural In Cftles. Districts. Diseases of respiratory system .. .. . 185.7 Of digestive 102.7 Bright's diseass .. 63.9 Tuberculosis of luni 188.0 26.5 302.6 2615 110.2 204.1 ‘524 Totals. 606.8 It will be seen that the death rate from these particular five causes was §3 per cent more in the citles than in the rural dis- triets. Organie heart disease, too, shows fts greatest increase in ‘the larger citles. In Albany, N. Y,, this disease claims as high a8 285 persons annually out of 100,000 pop- ulation. Ancient pestilences used to all but wipe out & tribe, and then sweep on, leaving a few dozen of the extremely hardy constitu- tions of the race to replenish the tride. The same tribes slew their babed that did not give promise of vigorous. manhood In glaring contrast to these facts, civilisa- tion has built hospitals to prolong the lives nature seeks to cut off, The United States alone has some 3,000 hospitals where each year a gigantic army of 1,250,000 tramp, tramp through the doors for help. This is one person in eve:y seve enty-five of the population who seeks hos- pital aid to prolong his life. This s not a bristling army, belted and armed to slay, but & supplicating horde of weaklings, seeking an extension of life. And a brief twelve months behind them comes ever the tramp, tramp of another 1,250,000 seeking physical repairs. Walking among us then are great swarms of human nature betkoned to the grave a decade ago. Ten years ago 21,844 trained nurses were In 1001 in the United States 3% persons of every 100,000 of population dled of small. of this letter, show this conelusively. The figures are open to sayone. The conclusion is that the vast majority of those who would be taken by a pestilence are those who would be taken lster anyway by & constitutiona! disease if spared from the pestilence. L E A HERE AND THERE. Lord Kitchener, as head of the British war department, received a salary of $30,000 & year. A mammoth ofl-driven harvester that is being tried on Australian whest fields strips about sixty acves a day. According to a consular report from Am- sterdam, the national wealth of Holland has increased since the war began by $60 per eapita. Driven by & gascline tractor, s machine has been invented for clearing ground of young timber and brush, even though closely matted agalnst the soil. It costs Paris nearly $100,000 a year to care for the trees on its streets and boule- vards and in ite parks, more than 1,000 new ones being planted annually. Switzerland utilizes a greater proportion of ita available water power than other na- tions, having harnessed about 700,000 of the 1,200,000 horse power provided by its streams. The six states having the most blindness are as follows: New Mexico, 160 blind per- sons in every 100,000 population; Nevads, 118; Arisons, 95; Kentucky, 94; Tennessee, 89, and Virginia, 80. Lewaniks, king of Baroseland, Africa, who died & month or so ago, yuled a territory as large as Germany and was the twenty-second in a royal line that dates back to the begin- ning of the seventeenth century. ‘A laboratory for research work in the possibilities of coal tar products is to be established at Johns Hopkins university, with the co-operation of gas compgples of Philadelphia and Baltimore. The purpose is to develop the aniline dye industry. ento valley recently turned out in force to two of the most sucsessful rabbit drives in its history. District 1002, near Franklin, Sacramento county, offered as an attraction free shotgun shells to all who would attend, and as a result about 4,000 rabbits were slain. No words were spoken st the marriage ceremony which recently united Oscar J. Marrison and Miss Thelms Allison at Dal- las, Tex., as neither of the contracting par- ties could speak, and the officiating pastor wrote out the ceremony, to which the bride and bridegroom nodded eager assent. The new Ban Francisco, rebullt from its | fire and reimbursed by its fair, is to add & muniéipel opera house to the extensive civic center now projected, the structure to be built by private capital and ultimately to revert to the city., An academy of music may be affiliated with the opera. EDITORIAL SIFTINGS. Philadelphia Ledger: Looking back four years, Mr. Taft probably appreciates with peculiar zest the charma of the quiet life. Cleveland Plsin Dealer: Bhackleton is back from the pelar regions, but he has no Get gumdrops and no white Eskimos, and it is feared that he has discovered all he sald he did and won't be st all pieturesque. Pittsburgh Dispateh: The women gathered in Chicago promise to teach the men poli- ticlans something about their business, Well, goodness knows, it seems they could stand a little instruction these days. Detroit Free Press: Importers say / / lace prices are increasing, and the ,.ur?/ \ the men who wear it will probably do the same thing. Brooklyn Eagle: An archaeologist has been digging up prehistoric dental tools snd teeth with fillings of pulverized stome and asphalt along the coast of Southern Cali- fornia. As that preacher who was king over Jerusalem put it, there is no new thing under the sun. Indianapolis News: Speaking of ill-ad- vised movements, there s the case of Gen- eral Louis de la Rosa who, with a bunch of greasers, is said to be on his way to make » raid on our side of the Mexican border. One guess as to what will happen to them if they don't change their minds ought to be enough. Springfleld Republican: In the May.day speech which brought him to trial for tres- son, Dr. Liebknecht began by recalling the bitter saying: great rights; we can be soldiers, we can pay taxes and we can keep our mouths shut.” This is the Magna Charts, #o0 to speak, of militarism. Louisville Courier-Journal: “At this sea- son it is safe to take a one-month-old baby out.in an automobile if he is shielded from the wind," says a medical 4rriter upon how to keep well. Well, it might be if the road hogs would regard the speed limits end the “We Germans have three , ) \| ¢ provisions of the road aw as to passing. -But = in the eircumstances nobody should be taken out in an automobile unless he is able to consider the risk and consent. : PLEA FOR PEACE. Author Uhkmnown. Christian, can you idly slumber While this work of hell goes on? Can you calmly sit and number Fellow beings one by one, On the flold of battle falliig. Sinking to & bloody grave? Up! The God of Peacs is calling, Caliing upon you to save. Listen to the supplications Of the widowed ones of earth; Listen to the cry of nations Ringing laudly, wildly forth; Nations bruised and crushed forever By the tron heel of war. £ God of Mercy! Wilt thou never Send deliverance from afar? Yes, a light s faintly gleaming Through the clouds that hover o'er; Boon the radiance of its beaming Full upon our world will pour; ‘Tis the light which tells the dawning Ot the bright millennial day, Heralding its blessed morning With Its peace bestowing ray. God shall spread abroad his banner, 8ign of universal peace, And the earth will shout hosanna, And the reign o6f blood shall cease; Man no more shall seek dominion ‘Through a séa of human gore, War shall spread its gloomy pinlen O'er the peaceful earth no more. The Twelfth Annual Convention Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, Philadelphia. A Great and Helpful Convention for Business Men—They Come for New Ideas and the Better Business Inspiration to be Beller ol Coste Disposition. Men. Itha ASK VICTOR WHITE, Chairman “On to Philadelphia” Committee 1214 Farnam St., Omaha YOU NEED NOT BE A MEMBER OF AN ADVER- TISING CLUB TO ATTEND THIS CONVENTION Persistence is the cardinal vir- tue in advertising; no matter how good advertising may be in other respects, it must be run frequently and constant- ly to be really successful.